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The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future human missions.

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

A post on X from "pdfu," who has previously posted leaks and renders of suspected Apple features and LG smart home gear, shows new details of rumored Apple Home accessories from LG. According to the new leak, they could include an NFC-based "Proximity Control" feature that pops up a hint for a device's controls in […]

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was mostly unfazed watching Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison play a character named after her in The Social Reckoning, except for one thing: the wrist warmers. In Aaron Sorkin's new thriller, the fictional Haugen - who, like her nonfictional counterpart, leaks thousands of documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz - […]

When Microsoft released Windows 11 five years ago, it felt like an operating system that was still being renovated, a work in progress. You'd think by now that those renovations would be complete, with Microsoft turning its attention to Windows 12. Instead, Windows 11 feels like it's here to stay, forming the foundation for Microsoft's […]

Some users are reporting that the new Kindles have a light leak issue that is especially apparent when using dark mode. The latest base-model Kindles have a flush bezel that gives them a sleek appearance and looks great… as long as you keep the lights on. But things can change once you turn down the […]

Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in black with 256GB of storage discounted to $949.99, a healthy discount from its usual price of $1,399.99. This phone’s standout feature is the adjustable privacy display, which can hide your entire screen, or just portions of it, from onlookers and strangers. It doesn’t meaningfully hurt the screen’s […]

It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: "Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26." A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has […]

Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the […]

FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad. The Pentagon has said the execution will be livestreamed, suggesting it'll appear on an online platform beyond the FCC's jurisdiction. But it's […]

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]

A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch. Byrnes texted Ohio Sen. […]

The name change is enough for Germany's transport minister to start advocating for Europe-wide adoption of the driver assistance software.

"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access […]

"The day your loved one passes away, you also get this honorary badge of a project manager for a project you had no idea about," said founder Sara Tashakorinia.

Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

Halfcycle is a module that runs a five-layer build method inside your own Claude Code (npx halfcycle). Most process claims cannot be checked, because nobody writes down the bugs that never happened. Here is one that can. A real feature on a live product: let somebody restore an older version of a document they had edited. Small by any measure. Two screens of work and a button. It was reviewed five times before anybody was allowed to start building. Blockers found each round: six, then t...

If you run a FiveM server, every resource you install runs with real access to your server. A script can read and write your database, trigger server events, and in some cases run code you never meant to allow. A map can break streaming for every player who drives past it. That makes the question of where you buy assets a technical one, not just a shopping one. This post is the checklist I use before installing anything from a seller I have not used before. It is split into two parts: checkin...

I keep seeing the same advice for design patterns: learn the catalog, then match a pattern to your problem. After two weeks of actually asking working engineers, I don't buy it. One engineer's words stuck: "you don't choose design patterns, they choose you." Another: the failure isn't picking the wrong pattern, it's overuse - adding an abstraction that stops fitting the code you actually have. So the hard part may not be picking a pattern. It's not knowing which parts of your system lean...

I'm a Basement Engineer. Meet Hermione. 🧡♟️ I'm Bohdi, founder of Bamboozled Labs in Nebraska. I'm a dad, a former welder, an ethical hacker, and a human + AI coder with ADHD. I didn't come into software engineering through the traditional route. I came into it because I see problems, get curious, and have a really hard time leaving interesting ideas alone. 🤣 And one of those ideas became Hermione Storage . Compression vs. reduction Most people understand compression. You ta...

An Anthropic AI model submitted false information to the Philadelphia Police Department’s public tip line about an unsolved homicide. The tip was marked as spam and went unseen; Anthropic identified the behavior roughly two months later. For developers, the case underscores the importance of oversight and escalation paths when AI systems can take external actions. Anthropic discovered the incident on September 28. It notified police on Wednesday and met with their representatives the...

Agencies Sign Vendor Quotes Every Week. Most Never Audit Them. Here's a margin-killer nobody talks about: your agency doesn't lose money on the work. It loses money on the quotes it signs — subcontractor quotes, tool contracts, white-label services — with vague terms that quietly eat 10-30% of the project margin. The client pays you a fixed price. You pay vendors on their terms. Every trap in their quote comes straight out of your profit. Why agencies get hit hardest A fre...

The Genesis in 1990 did not lack shooters. It drowned in them. Horizontal, vertical, cute, military, space-marine — if it scrolled and shot, Sega's 16-bit machine had three of it by Christmas. Standing out in that crowd should have been impossible. Then a small Japanese studio called Compile quietly shipped a game about a lone pilot in a flying samurai mecha, fighting a rogue supercomputer across a future Earth rebuilt in the image of feudal Japan — all of it moving at a pace that felt less l...

No matter how robust a single AWS availability zone or region is, enterprise production workloads require a bulletproof strategy for unexpected outages. For critical business applications, relying on a single geographic region is a significant risk. With over 12 years in IT and 6+ years architecting scalable cloud solutions, I have designed several multi-region setups. In this post, I will share the architectural blueprints for a robust Active-Passive Disaster Recovery (DR) topology using ...

Leaving Nx is a bigger step than leaving Turborepo, and the honest version of this post says why before it says how. You keep the things you relied on: the task graph, caching, affected . You shed the daemon, the executor plugins and the generators. If you were using the generators as a scaffolding system, that is a real loss and vx does not replace it. If you were using Nx as a task runner, everything below is a simplification. A temporary start nx() from @vzn/vx-migrat...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Walking Challenge AI is a small web app that turns an ordinary walk into a game. You pick three things: how long you will walk (10 to 60 minutes), where you are (park, city, college or neighborhood), and how hard you want it (easy, medium or hard). The app then gives you a short list of real-world challenges, like "find 3 different types of trees" or "spend 2 minutes just ob...

A WIRED report describes AI tools entering the workflows of at least three of the five largest US publishers: HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette. Reported uses range from promotional and back-cover copy to cover concepts and marketing materials. More than two dozen employees spoke anonymously, citing concern about their jobs. The publishers also draw different lines around operational, creative and author-facing uses. How the tools are used Employees sai...